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Dust for winds to scatter (after Machado)

I am currently going back and re-reading the poetry of Antonio Machado after being triggered by my encounter with The FortyRules of Love. This process is going to take me some time so I am republishing three renderings in English which are not so much literal translations of his originals as responses to them which incorporate his imagery seen through the prism of my perspective. They testify to how strongly I resonated to his poetry. This is the first.